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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Twin Cities, MN

May 8, 2004Faribault County, Freeborn County, Minnesota

NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2004, 1:38 AM CDT for Faribault County, Freeborn County, Minnesota. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 2004, 1:38 AM CDT (06:38 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 2004, 2:30 AM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Twin Cities, MN
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Faribault County, MN, Freeborn County, MN

The radar

The Minneapolis radar (KMPX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 7, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 125 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2004-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2004-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 111 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
375 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

348 
WUUS53 KMPX 080638
SVRMPX
MNC043-047-080730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
138 AM CDT SAT MAY 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN THE TWIN CITIES HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  FARIBAULT COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  FREEBORN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MINNESOTA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ALBERT LEA

* UNTIL 230 AM CDT

* AT 133 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 18 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF ALBERT LEA...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ALBERT LEA.

LAT...LON 4368 9374 4373 9378 4383 9376 4383 9306
          4361 9307

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMartin, Watonwan44 min
May 8, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXBlue Earth, Waseca39 min
May 8, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXFaribault42 min
May 8, 1:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXGoodhue, Steele39 min
May 8, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMPXMartin37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Minnesota, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.